Preacher Suspected

San Francisco, Sept. 2rt.- The exceedtng reticence of Durrant's legal talent tenders it inipossible to make a complete ynopsis of their case, but sufficient Information has been gathered from an unboubtedly authentic source upon whlch to base an outline. Thore can be no doubd that Mr. Deuprey wlll state that a complete alibi is expected to be proven for Irarrant, and while it is not thought ho mil indícate what witnesses will be oallcd In support of his olairu, yct his statement, which it is supposed will be brief, will show in all probability that an efifort would be made to prove mistaken identity in some instanoes, notably those of Mrs . Elizabeth Crosett and Mrs. Caroline Leak, and perjury in the cases of others who have testified to having seen Durrant in the company of Blanche Lamont the afternoon of April 3. The Great Surprise. What is undoubtedly the erreat surnrisa promised by the attorneys for the defense is the evidence which others claim to havo, proving that another than the defendant sent the package containing Blanohe La mont's ring to the belfry victim's aunt, Mrs. Noble, or rather that the address on the paokage and the two namea, George B. King and Professor Schernstern, whioh also appeared written on the newspaper, were not the production oL Durrant. The defense claims to be able to prove, by a comparison of these Inscriptionswith several specimens of writing which they have in their possession, and of whosc authorship they claim there is no doubt that the address and the two names on the newspaper that inclosed the rings when they were received by Mrs. Noble were written by the Rev. Greorge Gibson, though this claim is not readily accepted by those who are familiar with the case. Work of the Saine Hand. On the 15th of April last there wag published a statement by the Rev. J. George Gibson, which was signed with a fac-simile of his signature, and on the same day there was published a fac-simile production of the addrecs on the package of rings and of the two names mentioned. A comparison of these writings was maJe by George W. Montieth, an attorney, who has made a special study of handwriting, and he became thoroughly convinoed that they were all the work of the same hand. Subsequently Mr. Monteith callod the attention of the attorneys of Durrant to this theory, and on his suggestion the Rev. J. George Gibson was requested, when on the witness stand during the preliminary hearing of Durrant, to write the names of King and Schernstern. It will be remembered that the witness was at flist averse to complying with the request, but eventually did so. JU-markably Similar. The claim is now made that the writing obtained from the pastor of Emanuel Baptist church, when he was on the witness stand, is reniarkably similar to that on the newspaper that enwrappod Miss Lamont's Tinga. In order to furthor strengthen this extraordinary theory other writings which the defense claims it can prove were execufëd by the Rev. J. George Gibson were secured and compared with the printlike letters of Mrs. Noble's address on the ring packago, and it is in these comparisons that the strongest ground for this scarcely crediblo theory is said to lie. It has been deflnitely ascertained that the defeúse will ma.ke no attempt to show that Blanche Lamont was seen alive after 4:30 o'elock, the time she is supposed by the prosecution to have been murdered.